Cycle avoiding trajectories, strategic agendas, and the duality of memory and foresight: An informal exposition

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dc.contributor.authorMiller, Nicholas R.
dc.contributor.authorGrofman, Bernard
dc.contributor.authorFeld, Scott L.
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-05T17:54:08Z
dc.date.available2021-02-05T17:54:08Z
dc.date.issued1990
dc.description.abstractThis paper considers the notion of cycle avoiding trajectories in majority voting tournaments and shows that they underlie and guide several apparently disparate voting processes. The set of alternatives that are maximal with respect to such trajectories constitutes a new solution set of considerable significance. It may be dubbed the Banksset, in recognition of the important paper by Banks (1985) that first made use of this set. The purpose of this paper is to informally demonstrate that the Banks set is a solution set of broad relevance for understanding group decision making in both cooperative and non-cooperative settings and under both sincere and sophisticated voting. In addition, we show how sincere and sophisticated voting processes can be viewed as mirror images of one another - embodying respectively, "memory" and "foresight." We also show how to develop the idea of a "sophisticated agenda," one in which the choice of what alternatives to propose is itself a matter of strategic calculation.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://core.ac.uk/reader/207167270en_US
dc.format.extent13 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2msnv-ejls
dc.identifier.citationMiller, Nicholas R.; Grofman, Bernard; Feld, Scott L.; Cycle avoiding trajectories, strategic agendas, and the duality of memory and foresight: An informal exposition; Public Choice 64: 265-277, 1990; https://core.ac.uk/reader/207167270en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/20953
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherPublic Choiceen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Political Science
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
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dc.subjectcycle avoiding trajectoriesen_US
dc.subjectvoting tournamentsen_US
dc.subjectgroup decision makingen_US
dc.subjectsophisticated agendaen_US
dc.titleCycle avoiding trajectories, strategic agendas, and the duality of memory and foresight: An informal expositionen_US
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